Your life is at steak.

Remember Mr Pachauri? He wanted us to stop eating red meat to save the earth. Meat comes from cows that burp methane. Methane is making the world bake. So meat is bad for the climate.

But now, a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests another solution to the global warming problem. According to the study results, high intakes of red meat may increase the risk of mortality. Thus, red meat can cause early death. And remember, one human less is one human carbon footprint less.

So now, we just need to do some math. What’s better for the planet? To eat methane-burping cows and die prematurely, or to live long enough to make up for all that lost methane by higher CO2-emissions? Any volunteers?

Only a few days left till the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. But while he and his team say reducing the carbon dioxide emissions will be first priority, the inauguration itself will leave a huge carbon footprint on the presidential red carpet.

Using data from the EPA, environmentalist organizations, and various news accounts, the Institute for Liberty estimates more than 500 million pounds of carbon dioxide will be released during the four-day festivities.

The 600 private jets expected to fly visitors to and from the event will produce 25,320,000 pounds of CO2.

Personal vehicles could account for 262,483,200 pounds of CO2.

The horses in the parade will produce more than 400 pounds of CO2.

It would take the average household 57,598 years to produce as much CO2 as Obama’s inauguration. If Barack Obama’s administration is going after small business for its carbon footprint, then maybe they should look at themselves first.

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As an antidote to Earth Hour, an organization that calls itself Grassfire.org, is calling on people around the globe to dramatically increase their carbon dioxide emissions and thereby the so-called Carbon Footprint on Carbon Belch Day, June 12.

“It’s time (…) to purge ourselves of the false guilt that Al Gore and the Climate Alarmists have placed on us,” says Grassfire.org President Steve Elliott. “The fact is, reducing my personal carbon output has no impact on the so-called planetary emergency. That’s why for this one special day we are encouraging every American to unleash a historic Carbon Belch that will be symbolic of our release from the absurdity of green extremism.”

On the Carbon Belch Day website, there is a 21-question calculator to help us quantify our personal carbon belch.

“There’s something for everyone in our calculator”, says Elliott. Some of the examples given are hosting a barbie, going for a long drive, taking a plane trip and drinking bottled water.

As a skeptic to AGW I did not take part in the Earth Hour. But neither did I try to exaggerate my energy use in order to counteract this initiative. A Carbon Belch Day, when everyone skeptic of man-made climate change tries to maximize his or hers energy consumption and CO2-emissions seems an exceedingly juvenile idea. I just don’t get why we should regress an adult sandpit just to make a statement. Surely, there must be better and more sound ways to change public opinion.

I am sorry, Grassfire.org, this is just plain stupid.